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USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37) at sea on 23 August 1935.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives - 80-G-414458.
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Ron Titus |
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Undated, Pre War Image. |
Jesse P. Mannix |
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Undated, Pre War Image. Starboard Bow view, in transit through
the Panama Canal. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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Undated, Pre War Image. Starboard Bow view, in transit through
the Panama Canal. |
M/Sgt. M.L. McCormick, USAF (Ret.) |
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Starboard side view, date and location unknown.
Geroge Winstead photo.
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Robert M. Cieri |
0403718 |
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Aerial port quarter view while at anchor, date and location unknown.
U.S. Navy photo.
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David Buell |
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USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37) Steaming at high speed, probably during
trials in 1934.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National
Archives - 19-N-14733.
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National Archives |
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The USS San Francisco (CA
38) is forward of the USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37) on the left
and the USS
Hoston (CA-30) is forward of the USS
Chicago (CA 29) at Mare Island Navy Yard between Nov 3rd and 5th
in 1936. U.S. Navy Photo. |
Darryl Baker |
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Norfolk, VA. December 1940 - Adm. William D. Leahy (fore, L) and his
wife standing under big guns of the Tuscaloosa with Capt. Lee
P. Johnson (fore, R) prior to their departure for France.
Photo courtesy of Look magazine
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Bill Gonyo |
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USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37) Steams through heavy seas while en route
to the Bahamas with President Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked, probably
in December 1940. Photographed from the bridge, with her forward eight-inch
gun turrets in the foreground.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph - NH 50850
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USNHC |
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Convoy to Iceland, September 1941 - USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37) hoists
in a Curtiss SOC scout-observation plane after a patrol. View looks
aft on the cruiser's starboard side, with midships' 5"/25 guns in the
foreground. Another SOC is resting on the starboard catapult.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph - NH 47007
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USNHC |
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Early war (March 1942) shown here as she appeared while
operating with the British "Home Fleet". Note the Unique camouflage pattern.
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USNI |
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USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37) Moored in Scapa Flow, April 1942, while
she was operating with the British Home Fleet. The British heavy cruiser
London is in the background.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives - 80-G-12018
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National Archives |
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USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37) Underway on 7 October 1942.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center - NH 97938
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USNHC |
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North African Invasion, November 1942 - USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37)
fires her eight-inch main battery at French forces, during action off
Casablanca, Morocco, circa 8 November 1942. Collection of Commodore
Norman C. Gillette, USN.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph - NH 96030
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USNHC |
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USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37) Off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania,
10 November 1944. She is wearing camouflage Measure 32, Design 13d.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center - NH 97939
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USNHC |
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Iwo Jima Invasion, February 1945 - USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37) signals
with a blinker lamp, during a rainy dusk off Iwo Jima, 16 February 1945.
Photographed from USS
Texas (BB 35).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives - 80-G-309132.
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National Archives/Scott Dyben |
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LCIM
1012 coming along side the USS Tuscaloosa during the conquest
of the Japanese island of Okinawa during April and May 1945. This pictures
was taken by Dave Conrad Lt jg. |
Phil Dampf |
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(comments of D. Buell) This photo is of USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37).
You can almost make out the number 37 on her bow with a good magnifying
glass. Since she was painted up in the same camouflage paint - Measure
12-the Pandemus'
ship's photographer, who may have not had ship recognition training,
probably took a quick shot and assumed that it was Indianapolis,
since it was taken same area, different day. At any rate, this is also
a good find, as photos of Tuscaloosa in the Pacific are relatively
rare, since she spent most of World War II in the Atlantic, and did
not join the Pacific fleet until the final push on Japan, joining the
3rd fleet in January 1945. Most photography of CA 37 was taken
in the Atlantic.
Since the number on her bow was not too distinct, I also spent some
time to ID this photo, since all of the surviving
New Orleans class of cruisers were in the Pacific at this time and all
wore the same paint scheme as Tuscaloosa
at the same time also. I am confident that definite ID was made as Tuscaloosa
by two items:
1) She does not have any 20mm guns on her bow. The three other surviving
sisters all had at least one 20mm mount and tub at this time on their
bows, but Tuscaloosa alone never had 20mm bow mounts all during
the war.
2) Tuscaloosa's after (main) mast has no large radar platform
on it. At the time of the photo, each
of her three surviving sisters had a platform either with or without
radar mounted on them. She alone had no platform on the mainmast at
this time. The Navsource photos of CA 37 from 1945 helped me
to confirm this item.
U.S. Navy photo from the Collection of David Buell.
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David Buell |
